“It always looks and smells like woman is in charge around here”
I was reading along and nodding in agreement about my wife, but you lost me there. Our formal living room is that way, but we have six kids, three of whom are home schooled. I’m currently reading “Cheaper By the Dozen” to our fourth-grader, and the organized chaos they maintained is a lot like us - I like to joke that we went for the half-dozen discount instead. Like the book, Dad is often the main instigator of the chaos, and it take a special woman to put up with it.
You have my respect and best wishes for homeschooling. You may see my comment on schools-gone-wrong threads on Fr. I always say “two words: Home school”
Cheaper by the Dozen is a great family read aloud. We are down to only two home school students these days, but my husband still says at dinner time, ‘Not of general interest’ when our boys start waxing eloquent about the computer game of the day.
Me too. Of course, in our house, the boys always heavily outnumbered the girls. Back in the day if you sat down on the couch without looking, you were as likely to sit on a football helmet as you were pillow.
After five decades with my wife and witnessing countless marriages fall apart, I can say the thing I appreciate most about my wife is that she always believed in me and trusted me. No matter how bad I screwed up, she'd tell me everything was going to be alright, we'd get through it together, and then she'd tell me how wonderful and talented I was.
Today, I see these women harping on their husbands, demeaning them in public, and I feel for those men coming home to their own private hells each night. The greatest testament to my wife is the fact that all our sons who've married have chosen women much like her. I'm a blessed man and I owe it all to my wife who kept the whole show running on a shoestring for many years.